Re: Ambazonia Republic: CPC Backs Bakassi October 19, 2012 Breaking News, Reports

Bakassi People Have Lost Confidence in The AGF – Sen. Ewa Henshaw
November 1, 2012 Breaking News, Reports No comments

http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/11/bakassi-people-have-lost-confidence-in-the-agf-sen-ewa-henshaw/


On 11/2/12, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/11/bakassi-biya-sends-emissaries-to-jonathan-offers-olive-branch/
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> Bakassi: Biya Sends Emissaries to Jonathan, Offers Olive Branch
> November 2, 2012 Breaking News, Reports No comments
> paul biya
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> by crossriverwatch admin
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> Cameroonian President, Paul Biya, on Thursday, sent a delegation to
> President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, offering his cooperation towards
> the amicable resolution of all areas of disagreement between his
> country and Nigeria on Bakassi.
>
> crossriverwatch gathered that the three-man delegation included the
> country's Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmadu Ali; Cameroonian Ambassador to
> Nigeria, Abbas Iya Ibrahima and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
> African Cooperation, Jean Nguta.
>
> The delegation told Jonathan that Biya was interested in working
> hand-in-hand with him to resolve all issues on the common interests of
> the two countries.
>
> Biya, through the delegation, expressed his willingness to further
> promote and strengthen relationship between the two countries and
> requested for an audience with Jonathan as a way of encouraging
> regular consultations and interactions between the two leaders.
>
> The Cameroonian leader also sympathised with Jonathan on the recent
> floods in parts of the country, recalling that Cameroon had similarly
> suffered the same fate.
>
> In his response, President Jonathan stressed the need for Nigerians
> living in Cameroon and Cameroonians living in Nigeria to be treated
> well, noting that the fundamental human rights of individuals must be
> respected, irrespective of where they resided.
>
> The two leaders are now expected to meet soon, following the long
> running dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula ceded to Cameroon through a
> judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
>
> On 11/2/12, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:
>> FYI
>>
>> http://crossriverwatch.com/2012/10/ambazonia-republic-cpc-backs-bakassi/
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>>
>> by crossriverwatch admin
>>
>> Congress for Progressive (CPC) has thrown its weight behind the quest
>> for self-determination by the displaced people of Bakassi Peninsula
>> whose territory is now under the sovereignty of the Republic of
>> Cameroun.
>>
>> CPC stated this against the recent announcement that some border
>> communities in Cross River State are working with the people of
>> Bakassi and Southern Cameroun to create a new Republic of Ambazonia.
>>
>> Deputy National Secretary of CPC, Okoi Obono-Obla, in a statement
>> obtained by crossriverwatch in Calabar on Thursday, said, "We
>> resolutely and unequivocally stand by the hapless people of Bakassi
>> who have been left high and dry by an ambivalent and incompetent
>> Federal Government of Nigeria, and left to be wipe off the face by
>> Cameroun to join their kins and kiths in the Southern Cameroun to form
>> the Republic of Ambazonia.
>>
>> "The people of Bakassi have resolutely rejected the scandalous, unjust
>> and obnoxious judgment of the International Court of Justice and the
>> subsequent so-called Green Tree Agreement, signed by Nigeria in
>> violation of Section 12 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal
>> Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
>>
>> "The transfer of the sovereignty homelands of the Bakassi people to
>> Cameroon based on a colonial treaty of British and German
>> colonialists, known as the Anglo German Treaty of March 13, 1913,
>> which was prepared in violation of the previous 1884 agreement between
>> the Obong of Calabar and the United Kingdom and the 1885 Anglo-German
>> Treaty is nullity.
>>
>> "The Anglo-German Treaty of 1913 was never conclusive and therefore
>> cannot be used as legal premise to wish away the right of
>> self-determination of the people of Bakassi.
>>
>> "The quest of the people of Bakassi to join their brothers and sisters
>> in Southern Cameroun is legitimate because it is in exercise of their
>> right to self determination conferred on by Article 20(1)(2) and (3)
>> of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Enforcement and
>> Ratification) Act 2004 and the United Nations Declaration on Humans
>> Rights 1948 and Resolution 1514 (XV) of the Declaration and Granting
>> of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, passed by the
>> General Assembly of the United Nations of October 1960 without
>> compulsion or interference.
>>
>> "It is pertinent to mention that the right to self determination is an
>> imperative principle of modern International Law (Jus Cogens) and
>> therefore be derogated from by Nigeria and Cameroun.
>>
>> "In this vein, Nigeria is obligated by International Law to promptly
>> and immediately placed before the General Assembly of the United
>> Nations and the International Court of Justice the quest/desire/demand
>> of the people of Bakassi for their own nation or a union between them
>> and the people of southern Cameroun to form the Republic of Ambazonia
>> in view of their rejection the transfer of their ancestral homelands
>> to the Republic of Cameroun".
>>
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